Treating drug abusers / / edited by Gerald Bennett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784099103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990
• ISBN: 1-134-93173-5; 0-585-45996-7; 1-280-32603-4; 1-134-93174-3; 9786610326037; 0-203-16803-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BennettGerald <1951->
• Disciplina: 616.86/3
• Soggetti: Drug abuse - Treatment; Drug addicts - Mental health services; Community mental health services
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 1989.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Changing conceptions of the nature of drug abuse; Motivating heroin users for change; Family therapy and addiction; Relapse prevention training; Medical treatment for problem drug takers; Managing benzodiazepine withdrawal; Facing up to AIDS; Drug treatment and prescribing practice: what can be learned from the past?; The Community Drug Team: current practice; The Community Drug Team: lessons from alcohol and handicap services; Name index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Treating Drug Abusers provides a clear, practical guide to current approaches in the treatment of drug-taking. Written by practitioners for practitioners, it takes a psychological perspective to the problem. The authors include detailed case studies of particular treatments, focusing on, among other things, relapse and its prevention, family therapy, and the transmission of the HIV virus.